Biomass power plant in Araucania, Chile. Approximate location -38.5419, -72.4674.
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Lautaro is a 26 MW biomass power plant in Araucania, Chile. It is operated by COMASA S.A.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 35,790 homes (estimated). It ranks #147 of 315 Chile power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 5.7% of Chile's electricity; the national grid averages 289 gCO₂/kWh (66.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CHL0003015.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by COMASA S.A.. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 38.5°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 3% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 49/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #4 largest biomass power plant of 22 in Chile by capacity.
Chile has 22 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 384 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -38.5419, -72.4674 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
